A haunting and unforgettable new novel From the award-winning author of Ways to Live Forever. Season of Secrets weaves the tale of a heartbroken child and an age-old legend into beautiful story of love, healing and strange magic. Resonant of classics such as The Owl Service by Alan Garner, Whistle Down the Wind by Mary Hayley Bell and Skellig by David Almond, the protagonist’s story is told in the pure, clear voice we have come to expect from this astonishingly accomplished and powerful young writer. Sally Nicholls is simply an exceptionally talented writer, who writes beautifully. Her intelligent, warm fiction is honest and profound, complex yet accessible.
On a wild and stormy night Molly runs away from her grandparent's
house. Her dad has sent her to live there until he Sorts Things
Out at home.
In the howling darkness, Molly sees a desperate figure running for
his life from a terrifying midnight hunt. He has come to help her.
But why? And who is he?
SEASON OF SECRETS weaves the tale of a heartbroken child and an age-old
legend into a haunting story of love, healing and strange
magic.
"A cracking book" - Jacqueline Wilson
"Poignant and gripping" - The Bookseller
Sally Nicholls was named Glen Dimplex New Writer of the Year. Her
first book WAYS TO LIVE FOREVER won numerous awards including the
Waterstone's Children's Book Prize and the North East Book Award.
It was shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award and longlisted
for the CILIP Carnegie Medal.
Sally Nicholls grew up in Stockton-on-Tees, and after school, travelled the world, working for a period at a Red Cross hospital in Japan. Sally's first novel, Ways to Live Forever, won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and she has been shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Costa Children's Book Award, and the Carnegie Medal, twice.
She lives in Liverpool with her husband and two sons.
